In what might be the best ever birthday present ever, several people made it possible for me to order my very own 40GB iPod today. It won’t be here for a few days, of course, but you can bet that until then I’ll be dreaming little iPod dreams. Chris and I recently combined our mp3 collections and we’ve got around 30GB so far - but I haven’t even bothered ripping around half of my music collection (perhaps I should have used RipDigital). 40GB should be plenty for the time being, however, and plenty too for backups and all of the other things that one can do with a tiny portable hard drive.

Thanks to everyone who combined their magical powers to form EMMAPOD UNITED (particularly my big bad brother), and also to the readers who sent a recent influx of Amazon stuff, including Choke and Tokyo.